Sounds About White - the podcast Sounds About White

**In a break from tradition, Emma Nelson is off our airwaves this week (though if you miss her voice, head on over to Below The Dot: A Degrassi Podcast). Emma will be back for Sounds About White episodes 19 & 20, to wrap-up season one right! (or white?)**

Maria is joined by her white, cis-het, 33 year-old brother, Joe, to talk about his unlearning white supremacy journey. A significant portion of the episode is focused on white parenting, as Joe shares about supporting his little white ones on their own anti-racist journeys. 

This week's episode starts and ends with what's streaming on our screens... 

WHAT'S OUT:  The Cricket's Dance (2020, book + film)  A League Of Their Own (1992, film) Black trauma on TV, a la Queen & Slim (2019) Carolyn Bryant Donham + Courtney Tailor of TikTok (2022) 

WHAT'S IN:  Issa Rae's Rap Sh!t (2022) A League Of Their Own (2022, series) Billy Porter's Anything's Possible (2022) Lena Waithe's The Chi (2017 - present) Chinonye Chukwu, director of Till (2022) 

REST IN PEACE (AND POWER): Robert "Yummy" Sandifer (age 11), Shavon Dean (age 14), Emmett Till (age 14), Mamie Till (age 81), Christian Toby Obumseli (age 27)

In this episode, Emma shares about unfortunate on-going experiences with a white woman perpetually in her inbox. Emma and Maria talk all things awful about capitalism, including its impact on service delivery and having basic needs met. The topics of abortion, the white moderate, vacation colonization, AND soft cat collars also pop-up as we take you here, there, and everywhere. Thanks for joining along for the ride!  

Emma begins the episode with a special shout out to white women with curly hair who dare to compare themselves to Black women with natural hair. Maria brings in a question from a white listener about their potential participation in a Juneteenth Celebration, before launching into the intersect of whiteness & cis-het privilege this Pride. 

In this episode, Hilary Swank (Freedom Writers) is not mentioned, but her presence is implied during a discussion about a likely white teacher blogging about her student’s trauma. Emma & Maria proceed to talk about the interpersonal impacts of white wealth hoarding, along with a slew of other white-people-need-to-do-better issues.

Trigger Warning: discussion of Buffalo Massacre; and many a monologue by Maria, so remember: #ABlackPersonSaidItFirst So... #YouHeardItHereSecond. Recorded May 20, 2022.
In this episode, Emma & Maria discuss the ways shame & blame are used by white people across the political spectrum to deflect from self-reflection. Time is spent exploring how accountability and humility are often in short supply, particularly for most whites in these United States.